The Harlem Renaissance, also known as the New Negro Movement, was a cultural, social, and artistic explosion centered in Harlem, New York, and spanning the 1920s. This list includes intellectuals and activists, writers, artists, and performers who were closely associated with the movement.

Intellectuals, activists, journalists

Alain Locke Ferdinand Q. Morton Mary White Ovington Chandler Owen A. Philip Randolph

Writers

Lewis Grandison Alexander"Lewis Grandison Alexander". The Black Renaissance in Washington. Sterling A. Brown Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr. Countee Cullen Alice Dunbar-Nelson Jessie Redmon Fauset Rudolph Fisher Edythe Mae GordonNurick, Russell Jay. "Edythe Mae Gordon". In African American Authors 1745–1945: Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, Emmanuel Sampath Nelson, ed. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000, pp. 184–87. Eugene Gordon (writer)Elizee, Andre. "Eugene Gordon Papers". New York Public Library website, April 2006. Angelina Weld Grimke Robert Hayden Gladys May Casely Hayford Ariel Williams Holloway Langston Hughes Zora Neale Hurston Georgia Douglas Johnson Helene Johnson James Weldon Johnson Nella Larsen Claude McKay May Miller Effie Lee Newsome Richard Bruce Nugent Esther Popel George Schuyler Eulalie Spence Anne Spencer Wallace Thurman Jean Toomer Carl Van Vechten Eric Walrond

Performers and entertainers

Josephine Baker Anise Boyer Charles Sidney Gilpin Adelaide Hall Nina Mae McKinney Mantan Moreland Krigwa Players Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson Nicholas Brothers Paul Robeson Tip, Tap and ToeStreetSwing Dance History Archives The Four Step Brothers

Musicians and composers

Marian Anderson Louis Armstrong Count Basie Gladys Bentley Eubie Blake Cab Calloway The Chocolate Dandies Dorothy Dandridge Duke Ellington Adelaide Hall Roland Hayes Fletcher Henderson Billie Holiday Lena Horne Hall Johnson James Price Johnson Moms Mabley Pigmeat Markham Florence Mills Jelly Roll Morton Ma Rainey Noble Sissle Bessie Smith Victoria Spivey William Grant Still Fats Waller Ethel Waters Chick Webb Bert Williams Fess Williams

Visual artists

Charles Alston Henry Bannarn"Henry Bannarn". Minneapolis Institute of Art Richmond Barthé Romare Bearden Leslie Bolling, wood carvings Miguel Covarrubias, caricaturist Beauford Delaney Aaron Douglas Edwin A. Harleston Palmer Hayden Sargent Johnson William H. Johnson (painter) Lois Mailou Jones Jacob Lawrence Norman Lewis (artist) Archibald Motley Augusta Savage James Van Der Zee Meta Warrick Fuller Laura Wheeler Waring Hale Woodruff

References Finkelman, Paul, and Cary Wintz, eds. Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance. Psychology Press, 2004.

West, Aberjhani and Sandra L. Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance. Facts on File, 2003.